The second big W for Ben's soccer team!

Ben's soccer team won for the second straight week but this week Ben made his very first goal!!! and his second!!! He was so excited!! This is a picture of him right before he kicked it in the goal. Not the best picture I know but pretty good considering it was hard to see with the line of moms at the edge of the field cheering on their kids.


Here is Ben taking a break next to his friend Benjamin.


To celebrate we went to Yogurtland after the game, love that place!

Soccer season has begun

And we're off and running with soccer. Last Saturday was the first game. Let's just say we have a ways to go, but Bentley is loving it! Go Ben!

Road Trip!

The first weekend in October we decided to take a little road trip and go see my adorable new nephew in Flagstaff. It wasn't as far as I thought it was and we had a great time. We went hiking on the Red Mountain trail, pictured above.


Then we drove down Oak Creek Canyon to Sedona, hoping to see some fall colors (there was some).


There's my cute little nephew, Weston.


Devri thought it was great, but she also liked to try and eat the rocks.


I forgot how pretty Arizona is! Love this place! Hope to be back soon!

New Project

So one advantage to Blake's terrible work schedule is he is around on weekends and has time to help around the house. I finally convinced him we needed to paint the foyer and I bought the paint. Then I didn't have time to ever get the project started, so he did. The hardest part is done but we are no where near completion. Hopefully, we get it down before Christmas (Ha, Ha!)

I must be doing something right. . .

This morning as I was feeding Devri, Bentley comes in as says "Mom, I'm going to empty the garbages." Okay great I tell him and as he gets started he notices Devri's diaper pail is already emptied. He says, "Mom, next time let me empty it 'cause that's my job." Wow, I love it! Wish all the chores went like that.

And by the way, Go Cougars!! That was an amazing game tonight!

A busy week. . .

You know how some weeks go by and you are busy the whole week but then look back and wonder what you have accomplished. Well many days are like that for me but not this week. It has been a busy week but I was able to accomplish quite alot on top of the normal cooking, cleaning, laundry, getting the kids to school, and homework. Since we made a trip to Utah last weekend, I took advantage and went to the farmers market. So we came home with 2 boxes of pears, 1 box of apples, 1 box of peaches,1 box of potatoes (courtesy of DC Farms), a flat of raspberries, some blackberries, 2 cantaloupes, corn, and tomatoes(the last 3 items courtesy of Blake's aunt who does Schmidt corn in Salt Lake- yummy!)And no I didn't get pictures of everything.








So by the end of the week here is what I have accomplished:
24 quarts canned pears
5 quarts canned peaches
4 quarts peach pie filling
3 1/2 pints peach syrup
raspberry peach jam (1 batch)
raspberry jam (3 batches)
triple berry jam (3 batches)
5 pints apple cinnamon syrup
4 quarts frozen corn

I think we are all set on jam for a while. I still have some apples to go and I'm going to make some salsa this week. And we already ate all the cantaloupe- and it was yummy!! I hope this week is just as productive.

We Love BYU!

Last weekend we got to go to the BYU football game against Utah. Okay, so the game was disappointing and the outcome pretty sad, nevertheless, we had a great time and the kids are ready to go again!